{"id":8,"date":"2007-01-03T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T22:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-07-04T22:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T03:12:52","slug":"passports-and-constitutional-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Passports and constitutional freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fran and I went to the Post Office the day after Thanksgiving, to apply for passports.\u00a0\u00a0Fran needed a totally new passport because her old one had expired long ago.\u00a0 Mine was eligible for renewal.\u00a0 Fran\u2019s old passport had been issued in Canada under a different name.\u00a0 But they included it with\u00a0her application anyhow.\u00a0 I also submitted my passport with my renewal application.<br \/>\n<span \/>Shortly before Christmas we received Fran\u2019s new passport.\u00a0 \u00a0It\u2019s now after New Year\u2019s and we\u2019re in 2007, and I am still waiting (they cashed my check long ago).\u00a0 \u00a0Well, what can we make of this? <span \/>Maybe somebody\u2019s been watching out, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s Santa Claus.\u00a0 Perhaps someone\u2019s actually reading my material and paying attention to my actions. Let\u2019s look at this way, that I\u2019m offering an educational opportunity for someone, gratis (if we don\u2019t count that it\u2019s coming out of our taxes, yours and mine).<br \/>\n<span \/>I\u2019ll update this post, whenever the situation changes.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Passport came today, January 8, only (?) three weeks delayed from Fran&#8217;s &#8212; not quite twice as long a time)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran and I went to the Post Office the day after Thanksgiving, to apply for passports.\u00a0\u00a0Fran needed a totally new passport because her old one had expired long ago.\u00a0 Mine was eligible for renewal.\u00a0 Fran\u2019s old passport had been issued in Canada under a different name.\u00a0 But they included it with\u00a0her application anyhow.\u00a0 I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}